Dana Villa
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 449849 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Dana Villa |
| NOMBRES | Dana |
| APELLIDO | Villa |
| FIRMA | VILLA D |
| AFILIACIONES | Amherst College |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 24 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 128 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1992 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Hannah Arendt A Very Short Introduction
Socratic Citizenship
Hannah Arendt
In this essay I trace the relationship between philosophy and politics in Hannah Arendt’s work, with specific reference to the tension between her Socratic commitments and her appeal to “common sense” or sensus communis . I argue Arendt’s idea of a “common sense of the world” gives rise to a conception of the public realm that has too much shape and integrity to fit the often misty and particulate nature of contemporary reality. This is not the f…
Introduction to Special Section on Hannah Arendt
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The Legacy of Max Weber in Weimar Political and Social Theory
A "Second Coming"? The Return of German Political Theory
This article examines the political theories of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt in light of shared theoretical concerns and the discussion generated by their recent centenaries (2003 and 2006, respectively). I argue that Adorno's tremendously influential critique of identity philosophies is of limited value when it comes to political thinking, in large part because he neglects to give serious thought to the problem of institutionalizing freedom.…
Hannah Arendt, 1906–1975
This essay provides an overview of the life and theoretical concerns of Hannah Arendt. It traces the way her experience as a German Jew in the 1930s informed her analysis of totalitarianism in The Origins of Totalitarianism and her idea of the “banality of evil” in Eichmann in Jerusalem. The essay takes issue with those of Arendt's critics who detect a lack of “love of the Jewish people” in her writing. It also traces the way Arendt's encounter w…
Public Freedom
The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties. In Public Freedom , renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself. Through intense close readings of the…
Political violence and terror
This essay takes a critical look at the rubric ‘Age of Terror,’ a rubric which has enjoyed a certain amount of theoretical and philosophical cachet in recent years. My argument begins by noting the continuity between this hypostatization and contemporary ‘War on Terror’ rhetoric, a continuity that is, in certain respects, ironic given the politics of the ‘Age of Terror’ theorists. It then moves—via Machiavelli, Max Weber, and Hannah Arendt—to a c…
The “Autonomy of the Political” Reconsidered
Genealogies of Total Domination
Arendt, Heidegger, and the Tradition
Dana Villa Arendt, Heidegger, and the Tradition IN THIS ESSAY I WANT TO SUGGEST THAT THE ANTAGONISM MANY critics feel toward Arendt’s attem pt to conceptualize action as an end in itself—as a “pure” form of praxis—rests on a fairly basic misunderstanding. W hat is this misunderstanding? It is the idea that Arendt’s theory of political action is prim arily a normative theory directed against either the advent of mass democracy and its attendant pa…
Hegel, Tocqueville, and “Individualism
Critics of liberal individualism have pointed out the many failures of “atomism” as a method in social and political philosophy. Their methodological criticisms have a tendency, however, to devolve into repudiations of moral individualism as such. In part, this is due to a misreading of Hegel and Tocqueville, two critics of individualism who nevertheless upheld the importance of individual rights and what Hegel called “freedom of subjectivity.” M…
The Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt
Politics, Philosophy, Terror
Max Weber and Democratic Politics . Peter Breiner
Max Weber
The Philosopher Versus the Citizen
Etude du conflit entre philosophie et politique, opposant la figure du philosophe a celle du citoyen, dans l'oeuvre de H. Arendt et de L. Strauss. Examinant l'harmonie episodique, mais necessaire, de l'action et de la pensee, l'A. montre qu'Arendt et Strauss partagent la possibilite d'une forme socratique de la citoyennete, mais que celle-ci echoue contre la fausse alternative du republicanisme civique et de l'elitisme philosophique. Critiquant l…
Arendt and Heidegger
Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and domesticated by admirers (including critical theorists, communitarians, and participatory democrats) who had hoped to enlist her in their less radical philosophical or political projects. Against the pr…
Books in Review
Public Sphere, Postmodernism and Polemic
Theories of the public sphere, as standardly formulated, aim to specify the minimal, necessary conditions for a discursive realm free of coercion or manipulation. In his article in this Review in September 1992, Dana Villa urged us to reconsider this standard account. He argued that when read in light of postmodernist theory, Hannah Arendt provides the basis for a revised conception of the public sphere that privileges plurality and difference ov…
Books in Review
Beyond Good and Evil
UNTIL RECENTLY, HANNAH ARENDT'S THEORY of political action has been colonized almost exclusively by champions of a dialogical, consensus-based model of politics. Habermas provides perhaps the best example of a consensus reading of Arendt, a reading which stresses her distinction between action and speech, on one hand, and work, labor, and instrumentality, on the other. For Habermas and many others, Arendt's theory of action starkly underlines the…
Postmodernism and the Public Sphere
The idea of the public sphere, of an institutionalized arena of discursive interaction, is central to democratic theory and practice. The modern age has, however, witnessed the erosion of a public realm distinct from the state and the market. In response to this erosion, public realm theory, notably the work of Arendt and Habermas, attempts to theorize the minimal conditions necessary for a discursive realm free of structural coercion or manipula…
Postmodernism and the Public Sphere
The idea of the public sphere, of an institutionalized arena of discursive interaction, is central to democratic theory and practice. The modern age has, however, witnessed the erosion of a public realm distinct from the state and the market. In response to this erosion, public realm theory, notably the work of Arendt and Habermas, attempts to theorize the minimal conditions necessary for a discursive realm free of structural coercion or manipula…
Beyond Good and Evil
UNTIL RECENTLY, HANNAH ARENDT'S THEORY of political action has been colonized almost exclusively by champions of a dialogical, consensus-based model of politics. Habermas provides perhaps the best example of a consensus reading of Arendt, a reading which stresses her distinction between action and speech, on one hand, and work, labor, and instrumentality, on the other. For Habermas and many others, Arendt's theory of action starkly underlines the…
Genealogies of Total Domination
Hegel, Tocqueville, and “Individualism
Critics of liberal individualism have pointed out the many failures of “atomism” as a method in social and political philosophy. Their methodological criticisms have a tendency, however, to devolve into repudiations of moral individualism as such. In part, this is due to a misreading of Hegel and Tocqueville, two critics of individualism who nevertheless upheld the importance of individual rights and what Hegel called “freedom of subjectivity.” M…
The Philosopher Versus the Citizen
Etude du conflit entre philosophie et politique, opposant la figure du philosophe a celle du citoyen, dans l'oeuvre de H. Arendt et de L. Strauss. Examinant l'harmonie episodique, mais necessaire, de l'action et de la pensee, l'A. montre qu'Arendt et Strauss partagent la possibilite d'une forme socratique de la citoyennete, mais que celle-ci echoue contre la fausse alternative du republicanisme civique et de l'elitisme philosophique. Critiquant l…
Max Weber
Hannah Arendt, 1906–1975
This essay provides an overview of the life and theoretical concerns of Hannah Arendt. It traces the way her experience as a German Jew in the 1930s informed her analysis of totalitarianism in The Origins of Totalitarianism and her idea of the “banality of evil” in Eichmann in Jerusalem. The essay takes issue with those of Arendt's critics who detect a lack of “love of the Jewish people” in her writing. It also traces the way Arendt's encounter w…
Political violence and terror
This essay takes a critical look at the rubric ‘Age of Terror,’ a rubric which has enjoyed a certain amount of theoretical and philosophical cachet in recent years. My argument begins by noting the continuity between this hypostatization and contemporary ‘War on Terror’ rhetoric, a continuity that is, in certain respects, ironic given the politics of the ‘Age of Terror’ theorists. It then moves—via Machiavelli, Max Weber, and Hannah Arendt—to a c…
The “Autonomy of the Political” Reconsidered
Arendt, Heidegger, and the Tradition
Dana Villa Arendt, Heidegger, and the Tradition IN THIS ESSAY I WANT TO SUGGEST THAT THE ANTAGONISM MANY critics feel toward Arendt’s attem pt to conceptualize action as an end in itself—as a “pure” form of praxis—rests on a fairly basic misunderstanding. W hat is this misunderstanding? It is the idea that Arendt’s theory of political action is prim arily a normative theory directed against either the advent of mass democracy and its attendant pa…
Public Sphere, Postmodernism and Polemic
Theories of the public sphere, as standardly formulated, aim to specify the minimal, necessary conditions for a discursive realm free of coercion or manipulation. In his article in this Review in September 1992, Dana Villa urged us to reconsider this standard account. He argued that when read in light of postmodernist theory, Hannah Arendt provides the basis for a revised conception of the public sphere that privileges plurality and difference ov…
Books in Review
Beyond Good and Evil
UNTIL RECENTLY, HANNAH ARENDT'S THEORY of political action has been colonized almost exclusively by champions of a dialogical, consensus-based model of politics. Habermas provides perhaps the best example of a consensus reading of Arendt, a reading which stresses her distinction between action and speech, on one hand, and work, labor, and instrumentality, on the other. For Habermas and many others, Arendt's theory of action starkly underlines the…
Postmodernism and the Public Sphere
The idea of the public sphere, of an institutionalized arena of discursive interaction, is central to democratic theory and practice. The modern age has, however, witnessed the erosion of a public realm distinct from the state and the market. In response to this erosion, public realm theory, notably the work of Arendt and Habermas, attempts to theorize the minimal conditions necessary for a discursive realm free of structural coercion or manipula…
Books in Review
Public Sphere, Postmodernism and Polemic
Theories of the public sphere, as standardly formulated, aim to specify the minimal, necessary conditions for a discursive realm free of coercion or manipulation. In his article in this Review in September 1992, Dana Villa urged us to reconsider this standard account. He argued that when read in light of postmodernist theory, Hannah Arendt provides the basis for a revised conception of the public sphere that privileges plurality and difference ov…
Books in Review
Arendt and Heidegger
Theodor Adorno once wrote an essay to "defend Bach against his devotees." In this book Dana Villa does the same for Hannah Arendt, whose sweeping reconceptualization of the nature and value of political action, he argues, has been covered over and domesticated by admirers (including critical theorists, communitarians, and participatory democrats) who had hoped to enlist her in their less radical philosophical or political projects. Against the pr…
The Philosopher Versus the Citizen
Etude du conflit entre philosophie et politique, opposant la figure du philosophe a celle du citoyen, dans l'oeuvre de H. Arendt et de L. Strauss. Examinant l'harmonie episodique, mais necessaire, de l'action et de la pensee, l'A. montre qu'Arendt et Strauss partagent la possibilite d'une forme socratique de la citoyennete, mais que celle-ci echoue contre la fausse alternative du republicanisme civique et de l'elitisme philosophique. Critiquant l…
Politics, Philosophy, Terror
Max Weber and Democratic Politics . Peter Breiner
Max Weber
The Cambridge companion to Hannah Arendt
Hegel, Tocqueville, and “Individualism
Critics of liberal individualism have pointed out the many failures of “atomism” as a method in social and political philosophy. Their methodological criticisms have a tendency, however, to devolve into repudiations of moral individualism as such. In part, this is due to a misreading of Hegel and Tocqueville, two critics of individualism who nevertheless upheld the importance of individual rights and what Hegel called “freedom of subjectivity.” M…
The “Autonomy of the Political” Reconsidered
Genealogies of Total Domination
Arendt, Heidegger, and the Tradition
Dana Villa Arendt, Heidegger, and the Tradition IN THIS ESSAY I WANT TO SUGGEST THAT THE ANTAGONISM MANY critics feel toward Arendt’s attem pt to conceptualize action as an end in itself—as a “pure” form of praxis—rests on a fairly basic misunderstanding. W hat is this misunderstanding? It is the idea that Arendt’s theory of political action is prim arily a normative theory directed against either the advent of mass democracy and its attendant pa…
Public Freedom
The freedom to take part in civic life--whether in the exercise of one's right to vote or congregate and protest--has become increasingly less important to Americans than individual rights and liberties. In Public Freedom , renowned political theorist Dana Villa argues that political freedom is essential to both the preservation of constitutional government and the very substance of American democracy itself. Through intense close readings of the…
Political violence and terror
This essay takes a critical look at the rubric ‘Age of Terror,’ a rubric which has enjoyed a certain amount of theoretical and philosophical cachet in recent years. My argument begins by noting the continuity between this hypostatization and contemporary ‘War on Terror’ rhetoric, a continuity that is, in certain respects, ironic given the politics of the ‘Age of Terror’ theorists. It then moves—via Machiavelli, Max Weber, and Hannah Arendt—to a c…
A "Second Coming"? The Return of German Political Theory
This article examines the political theories of Theodor Adorno and Hannah Arendt in light of shared theoretical concerns and the discussion generated by their recent centenaries (2003 and 2006, respectively). I argue that Adorno's tremendously influential critique of identity philosophies is of limited value when it comes to political thinking, in large part because he neglects to give serious thought to the problem of institutionalizing freedom.…
Hannah Arendt, 1906–1975
This essay provides an overview of the life and theoretical concerns of Hannah Arendt. It traces the way her experience as a German Jew in the 1930s informed her analysis of totalitarianism in The Origins of Totalitarianism and her idea of the “banality of evil” in Eichmann in Jerusalem. The essay takes issue with those of Arendt's critics who detect a lack of “love of the Jewish people” in her writing. It also traces the way Arendt's encounter w…
The Legacy of Max Weber in Weimar Political and Social Theory
Introduction to Special Section on Hannah Arendt
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Socratic Citizenship
Hannah Arendt
In this essay I trace the relationship between philosophy and politics in Hannah Arendt’s work, with specific reference to the tension between her Socratic commitments and her appeal to “common sense” or sensus communis . I argue Arendt’s idea of a “common sense of the world” gives rise to a conception of the public realm that has too much shape and integrity to fit the often misty and particulate nature of contemporary reality. This is not the f…
Hannah Arendt A Very Short Introduction
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